Two Medway MPs oppose motion supporting Gurkahs

Two of Medway’s Labour MPs have voted against full support for the Gurkhas.

Labour MPs Paul Clark (Gillingham & Rainham) and Jonathan Shaw (Chatham & Aylesford) both voted against the Lib Dem-introduced motion supporting the Gurkhas, backed also by the Conservative Party.

In the same week he launched a damaging attack on the Prime Minister, Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway) voted in favour of the motion, which was passed after a rebellion from backbench Labour MPs.

Rehman Chishti, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Gillingham & Rainham, said on his website ‘I am disappointed that the local MP has turned his back on the Gurkhas by refusing to support this motion, especially when they have done so much for this country and have strong links with Gillingham’.

Tracey Crouch, Reh’s counterpart in Chatham & Aylesford, said on her website that the ‘Conservatives joined the Liberal Democrats and some Labour MPs to vote against the Government’s policy on restricting the right of former Gurkhas to stay in the UK. Our own local MP ignored the feelings of many people in Chatham & Aylesford and voted in favour of the restrictions, which according to the Gurkha Justice Campaign would help only a limited number of veterans’.

The full voting record for the motion can be found over at The Public Whip.